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Date of source: Wednesday, February 1, 2006
In the drama that followed the republishing of the Danish cartoons across several European nations, the Danish and Norwegian Embassies in Damascus, and also the Danish Consulate in Beirut, were all burnt down. These incidents prompted those foreign ministers to advise their people to leave Syria...
Date of source: Thursday, October 20, 2005
A discussion of martyrdom in Islam and the distinction between martyrdom, suicide and terrorism.
Date of source: Tuesday, October 4, 2005
Kuwaiti writer Layla al-‘Uthmān places responsibility for the backwardness of Arab societies on the educational system in the Arab world.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 25, 2004
A Kuwaiti Islamist Member of Parliaments threatens to question the Kuwaiti Minister of Information and other government officials in Parliament. The Kuwaiti MP criticized Kuwaiti Television for airing the competitions of the Olympic Games in Athens which women participate in. Awad Al-Anzi said that...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 22, 2005
A series of lectures organized by the National Institute for Women, headed by Dr. Jābir ‘Asfour, tackled the issue of discrimination against women in religious discourse. cAsfour said that it is important to spread correct religious culture and Islamic teachings that are compatible with the modern...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 22, 2005
The Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) has 57 Islamic countries as members, with a total population of more than one billion people. Failure of the OIC to respond to its peoples’ hopes despite its frequent meetings and despite the world media’s focus on them, has resulted in a lack of...
Date of source: Saturday, January 29, 2005
Asmā’ was a happy 11-year-old girl whose childish innocent laughs used to fill every nook and cranny in the house. Even when her daddy tied her legs, she never stopped laughing. She believed that he was kidding with her. That was until she suddenly felt terrible pain in her neck.
Date of source: Saturday, November 17, 2001 to Friday, November 23, 2001
The Kuwaiti authorities closed 127 illegal charity institutions following claims of Al-Qa’eda organization that the Gulf countries are the largest financial resources of the organization. Besides, the USA required the Kuwaiti government to tightly control such institutions. The Kuwaiti prime...
Date of source: Monday, April 16, 2001
The Islamic Organization for Medical Sciences, in Kuwait, welcomed the Islamic Research Institute’s fatwa [religious decree given by a Muslim scholar or Mufti] that forbids leasing a womb to implant in it the zygote of another woman.
Date of source: Sunday, February 18, 2001
A Kuwaiti appeals court on Sunday dropped a 3-1/2-year prison sentence against a Kuwaiti priest found guilty in a case over a brawl in a local church, the defense said.
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Emerging Perspectives on Intercultural and Interreligious Relations
Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.